Passage : 
These Are Men Who Preached Christ
Monday September 23, 2019 Text: Colossians 4:7-18 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Passages: Colossians 4:7-18
This is not just a list of random faceless people. These are men and women whose names the Holy Spirit recorded in Scripture. They are people who received praise not from men but from God for the work they did. They are both an example to us and an encouragement lest we become disheartened by our own labors for the Lord.
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Keeping Christ On Your Lips
Monday September 16, 2019 Text: Colossians 4:2-6 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Passages: Colossians 4:2-6
What can you do? Nothing by yourself of course, but through prayer you can arm yourself and prepare asking the Lord for both opportunity and ability to make use of that opportunity to share the Gospel. The time is short the harvest is vast.
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What Christ Did Is the Basis for All That We Do
Tuesday September 3, 2019 Text: Colossians 3: Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Passages: Colossians 3:
Christ has loved you therefore you love. Christ has given you peace therefore you live in peace Christ has given you joy therefore serve him
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How To Live In The Image Of Our Creator
Tuesday August 27, 2019 Text: Colossians 3:1-11 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Passages: Colossians 3:1-11
Pull out evil by the root. Daily use the power that is ours through our baptism.
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Only Christ is Necessary
Monday August 19, 2019 Text: Colossians 2:16-23 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Passages: Colossians 2:16-23
For the meaning is: Since righteousness of the heart is a spiritual matter, [creating life in] hearts, and it is evident that human traditions do not [create life in] hearts, and are not effects of the Holy Ghost, as are love to one's neighbor, chastity, etc., and are not instruments through which God moves hearts to believe, as are the divinely given Word and Sacraments, but are usages with regard to matters that pertain in no respect to the heart, which perish with the using, we must not believe that they are necessary for righteousness before God.
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We Are Complete In Christ
Tuesday August 13, 2019 Text: Colossians 2:6-15 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Passages: Colossians 2:6-15
In this section Paul compares the fullness we have in Christ with the emptiness of the religions and philosophies of this world.
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The Mystical Union
Tuesday August 6, 2019 Text: Colossians 1:21-29 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Passages: Colossians 1:21-29
Christ in us is the result of Christ for us. We grow by the external word. We labor for the fullness of the Church.
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Thursday August 1, 2019 Text: Colossians 1:15-20 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Passages: Colossians 1:15-20
Christ is first in Paul's thoughts Christ is first in Creation by virtue of His deity Christ is first in the Church by virtue of His suffering
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He Has Filled Us With Grace, Therefore Let Us Ask For More
Tuesday July 16, 2019 Text: Colossians 1:1-14 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Passages: Colossians 1:1-14
In the first part of our sermon text, Paul lists all the blessings which God has given to the Colossians. All of these things He has given to you too. Paul then prays with boldness that God would grant the Colossians even more grace, to learn to know and walk with Him even better than they have been. A large part of this daily walk with God is patient endurance in suffering. It is often through this same suffering that we grow even more in our faith. Therefore we press on for the sake of all that we are and have from God, especially the redemption of our sins in Christ Jesus.
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THE MEANING OF HIS ASCENSION
Wednesday June 5, 2019 Text: Colossians 3:1-4 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Ascension Passages: Colossians 3:1-4
Although He is not seen yet He is with us always. He is with us with power having received all authority from the Father. He will come again in glory. This means that my greatest treasures are those things that are not seen. I have been raised from dust to be a son of God. And I will be glorified with Him.
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